EDITORIAL: Attention, IMSA. Please revise your system for Full Course Yellows

Off in the Esses, the IMSA and sports car racing content creator who is one of the ones I regularly follow and post videos from, to the blog, he is spot on when it comes to how IMSA can fix their trouble with long, long Full Course Yellows.  Let's face it, we've talked before.  When I write about the races, if there is a Full Course Yellow, it takes way, way too long to get the mess cleaned up.  You could conceivably have a bite to eat, or read a short novel, or take a short nap and by the time you are done with these mundane tasks, that is when the yellow is finally over and we can go back to the motor race as it was before under green flag conditions.  

I just don't think this plan of trying to bunch the entire field together for a Full Course Yellow procedure is very effective, and like Stuart, the real name of Off in the Esses, mentions in his video, maybe it is worthwhile to look at the procedure taken for Full Course Yellows by the FIA and the FIA World Endurance Championship specifically, who typically run more endurance races than IMSA does rather than doing many of the flat out sprint events.  Their procedure is to go with Full Course Yellows and maybe close the pit lane for a bit so the cars can be collected.  Stu makes note that the pit stops are staggered and so closing the pit lane is the best idea.

Slow the cars down to 80 kilometers an hour, 50 miles an hour, to clear the car that is off the road, behind the barriers.  Will this reduce the number of Full Course Yellows?  It sounds like it would be effective especially if there is debris or just one stranded race car that needs to be rescued.  In a perfect world, it will not be 100% spot on, although, it will reduce yellows.  I really, really agree that this system with slow zone type of situation might be useful for IMSA to work with.  To the folks at IMSA, please, listen to this suggestion and take it seriously, because I believe it might just help so that we can have less time to clean up the mess after an incident and more time therefore, to go racing.  Sincerely, me.